Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division
Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division
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XBOX can’t be buried soon enough. It’s been dead in the casket for over a decade and it’s time to start throwing dirt on it.
I love the original and the 360. The people that had the passion and vision for what XBOX was and needed to be are long gone and this is what we’re left with. A bunch of suits making decisions who probably don’t even know how to play pong.
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What exactly was the original vision?
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"Everything is an Xbox" now. Even the PlayStation is living on borrowed time. The way Xbox is run right now may not be very good, but the vision for what Xbox was had to change. They were just an earlier casualty of the way things are changing than their competition.
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I don’t see it that way at all. Xbox took their foot off the gas when Kinect came out and has been dying from 1000 cuts. What was working for Xbox - they stopped doing. This isn’t the future, this is them throwing anything they can at the wall and see what sticks.
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Why? What about their strategy right now it because of the way things are changing?
None of it is. It is because of mismanagement that happened with Don Matrick and the OG Xbox one focusing on fucking cable hookups and banning their users from borrowing physical games.
That corporate garbage in Xbox NEVER fully disappeared and now they're reaping what they sowed.
Also not releasing an exclusive game worth buying since before 2014 is a wild strategy.
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"Just one more layoff. Just one more and I promise we'll have Copilot reach AGI. We just need one more layoff to make the cost structure work. Please, just one more."
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I remember the exact moment when death of XBOX console basically started. It was XBOX One announcement where Don Mattrick messed up the rollout so bad no one knew how their always online DRM system worked. Sony made this video in response. Also there is this disaster of an interview where he said gamers should buy XBOX 360 if you can't be online 24/7. Microsoft basically took it for granted that gamers were in their pocket and they could focus on dominating the livingroom by adding tv related features that gamers didn't care about. Also Kinect was initially mandatory which made the console $100 more than PS4. XBOX lost console marketshare and they never recovered since then.
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That sounds about right. I remember the 360 being huge and nobody having a ps3, but now I'm not sure I know a single person who bought an xb1 or whatever the current one is called.
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The X🦴
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That’ll get them their killer game!
Honestly maybe the last Xbox will be the last one I buy. Even if they put out another one what’s even the point anymore?
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Honestly maybe the last Xbox will be the last one I buy.
Yes. I also stopped buying XBoxes with the Series...G. (I'm lying. I have no idea what my Xboxes are called. Is the 360 still new? Was there a G? It felt like we were doing letters for awhile.)
Even if they put out another one what’s even the point anymore?
I agree. But I gave up when I had to do research to figure out which one was the new one.
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Tbh I never really had trouble with which was which, despite their ridiculous naming conventions. And like the console is decent and they do a lot of things right. But also unless I’m just paying them a monthly fee for gamepass to get access to games that are also on other consoles then there’s no real particular benefit to the console aside from what backwards compatibility it offers. Which is okay but not nearly full BC coverage. And at this point with all the studios they’ve gutted, what more would a new console even bring to the table? An $800 price tag maybe.
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This will free up a lot of capital for c-level bonuses
That's a relief. I was starting to worry about them, with all these breakout indie game successes.
Maybe the indie developers will start buying the AAA CEOs a coffee once in awhile.
(This is intended as surrealist humor.)